I voted #2, although being that this is day 54 it may be too soon to tell! I am seeing parts and pieces reemerge that I got glimpses of long ago, before my drinking derailed and suppressed so much of my true self... and I say true self because I think there has been a plan in place for me (for everyone, really) since the beginning. I don't believe that I can become "a whole new person"; I can only be the person that I have always been meant to be. In this way, I see that I am not so different from the way I was as a child, just wiser and with a LOT more life experience. But the essence of me is still there, growing and developing. Alcohol made all of that growth come to a screeching halt, stunting me for a decade or longer, and tricking me into thinking I was something I am not, but that was part of the big plan, too, I believe. The real me is back and ready to contiue moving forward.